External view of the St. Louis Coliseum (601 Jefferson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA) in St. Louis, MO. USA. This is during the 1916 Democratic Convention. Sign on building reads, "Vote for Jim Houchin primary August." Advance scouts of the National Committee are seen. Left to right, Fred C. Robertson, Norman Mack, Hugh Wallace, and Colonel John Martin.
Gregory C. (Greg) Bell, a sophomore at Indiana University, is seen making his record-setting long jump of 26' 7", to win the national collegiate title on June 14, 1957, in Austin Texas. Bell sitting on the ground after his jump. Sequence shifts to the track where Don Bowden, of California, is running well ahead of favored Ron Delany, of Villanova, to win the 800 meter run in 1 minute and 47.2 seconds. (Note: Delany won the 1500 meter run in 4 minutes 6 and a half minutes.) The next day, on June 15, 1957, Bob Gutowski, of Occidental College,California, is seen breaking the World record in the pole vault at a height of 15 feet 9 3/4 inches. He poses momentarily afterwards.
A quiet one street rural western town in Spiro, Oklahoma, with a single car on the road and wooden simple buildings on either side. A large earth mound seen, known as "Craig Mound." Several men dig with shovels and pick axes into the mound and retrieve prehistoric indigenous Pre-Columbian Native American Indian relics, dating from the 9th century to the 15th century. Indigenous people's implements, ornaments, artwork beads, weapons, and money discovered in the earthen burial mound in Spiro. The remarkable relics are examined by a man and shown being held and in display cases. (The relics were part of religious rituals of a pre-Columbian Caddoan Mississippian culture, in eastern Oklahoma near the Arkansas border.)
American college football game between Oklahoma Sooners and the Irish of Notre Dame at South Bend in Indiana. Glimpses of football game underway with players on the move and huge crowd of spectators cheering for their respective teams. Oklahoma Sooners wins the game by forty points to nil.
Texas Longhorns beat the Oklahoma Sooners in Dallas, Texas. Spectators watch the game at the Cotton Bowl. The game begins. Players include: Mike Cotten, Jimmy Saxton. Texas leads 3-0 as the game progresses. Spectators cheer the players. The Longhorns still lead 10-0 at half-time. Texas Longhorns beat the Oklahoma Sooners 24-0.
A football match is played between Oklahoma and North Carolina at Sugar bowl. Oklahoma, also called Sooners win over North Carolina, also called Tar Heels by 41-28. A crowd of 80500 witness the match.
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